Lectures and seminars

Enterprise Forum

12:00 - 13:00 28 October 2013
'''Host:''' Faculty of Medical and Human Sciences '''About the event:''' '''Title:''' 'Sourcing early stage – pharmaceutical intellectual property' '''Speaker:'''Andrew Parsons,…

Fragmentary Ancestors? Figurines and Archaeology from Koma Land, Ghana

17:00 - 18:00 28 October 2013
Fragmentary Ancestors? Figurines and Archaeology from Koma Land, Ghana With Prof Benjamin Kankpeyeng and Professor Timothy Insoll. An insight into the fieldwork that has taken place…

MICRA Seminar: Ageing, Transport and Mobility

13:00 - 16:00 29 October 2013
Ageing, Transport and Mobility: New approaches from researchers and providers From MICRA, cities@manchester and Transport for Greater Manchester Seminar 14.00-16.00, Free networking…

CIDRAL Theory Intensive: On Lacan

15:00 - 17:00 30 October 2013
With Professor Ian Parker (Lacanian psychoanalyst, and Institute of Education, The University of Manchester) Readings for the seminar are: 1. 'Some reflections on the ego', <i>International…

Is natural gas the answer to the UK's energy challenges?

17:00 - 18:00 30 October 2013
Gas supplies 30% of the energy we use in the UK: to heat our homes, to power industry and to generate electricity. But this fuel has a contested future. For enthusiasts, gas will…

Monitoring Redox Speciation of Actinides using Optical Fingerprinting

14:00 - 17:00 30 October 2013
The Dalton Seminar Series is to promote exchange and offer informative events of The University of Manchester institutions and facilities associated with Dalton Nuclear Institute (DNI).…

To Breed or Not to Breed: The mystery of the elusive baby pandas

13:00 - 14:00 30 October 2013
Famous for being distinctly lacklustre when it comes to procreation, the giant panda’s gestation period, while in captive breeding programmes, remains a mystery. There are about 300…

Embracing the links between development and environment - A Greenpeace view

16:00 - 18:00 4 November 2013
The Environment and Development Research Group of the Institute of Development Policy and Management hosts a visit from Daniel Mittler, Political Director / Head of Political and Business…

CIDRAL Roundtable: 'Body Crossings'

17:15 - 19:00 5 November 2013
With Ron Athey (performance artist), Professor Jennifer Doyle (UC Riverside) and Dr Monica Pearl (EAC) This event marks the launch of books by Ron Athey, <i>Pleading in the Blood: The…

Composers' Forum: Stefan Litwin

16:00 - 17:45 5 November 2013
Stefan Litwin (Hochschule für Musik Saar)

Deborah Shaw (Portsmouth) 'The relationship between European funding bodies and Latin American filmmakers: new forms of dependence or new partnerships?'

18:00 - 20:00 5 November 2013
Abstract European social funding bodies aligned with film festivals, have been instrumental through their support in developing the careers of some of the most high profile contemporary…

Distributional learning of syntax

16:00 - 18:00 5 November 2013
LEL Research Seminar talk. Abstract: "Recently some new techniques of grammatical inference have been developed, inspired by some old ideas of distributional learning from structuralist…

"Rebecoming analogue: Old Beats in the New World"

17:00 6 November 2013
This lecture by Rowan Oliver from the University of Hull is one of the American Studies "Critical Mass" series of seminars. These events are free and open to the public: all welcome!

Aristotle and the thirst for tragedy

17:30 - 19:00 6 November 2013
Classical Association Meeting

CIDRAL Roundtable: ‘Balkan Music and Roma Migrants in the UK’

17:00 - 18:30 6 November 2013
In the last few years thousands of Roma have emigrated to the UK and fears of Gypsy hordes have appeared in the media. Simultaneously, Balkan music is becoming increasingly popular.…

ICON Lecture | From Bedside to Bench: Genome Replication, Human Growth and Inflammation

12:30 - 14:00 6 November 2013
'''Host:''' Institute of Human Development '''Speaker:''' Dr Andrew Jackson, University of Edinburgh '''About the event:''' Brought to you by the University of Manchester, supported…

Wounds and Utopia: Artist, Ron Athey, on ‘Wounds and Utopia’

16:30 6 November 2013
Wounds and Utopia: Artist, Ron Athey, on ‘Wounds and Utopia’

“Eating People is Wrong: Notes on Law, and Controlling one’s own Death”.

14:00 6 November 2013
In this talk Dr Brassington (Lecturer in Bioethics) is looking at whether people who defend the legalisation of assisted dying by saying that people should be able to choose their preferred…

Composers' Forum: Gordon Delap

16:15 - 17:45 7 November 2013
Gordon Delap (National University of Ireland, Maynooth)

Ehrhardt Seminar: Reading 1 Samuel 18:1-4 in the Hellenistic Period - James Harding

14:00 - 16:00 7 November 2013
The Centre for Biblical Studies presents the latest Ehrhardt Seminar, with James Harding from Otago. 90 minutes followed by tea.

Plato, Plato's Epistles and Greek Fictional Letters

16:55 - 18:30 7 November 2013
Classics & Ancient History Research Seminar

Research Seminar - The Forgotten Criminalisation of Company Fraud in Victorian Britain - James Taylor

16:00 - 17:30 7 November 2013
Autumn Term Research Seminars The Forgotten Criminalisation of Company Fraud in Victorian Britain James Taylor (Lancaster) All are welcome. Events end around 5:30pm followed by drinks with the speaker.

Secularity and Its Discontents: Religion and Cinema in Israel (CJS Seminar Series) - Yaron Peleg

16:00 - 17:30 7 November 2013
Yaron Peleg (Cambridge) discusses a crucial theme in Israeli cinema. The third in the Centre for Jewish Studies Seminar Series. The lecture looks at the changing nature of Zionism and…

HCRI Landmark Lecture with David Rieff: The Moral Legitimacy of Humanitarian Action

17:30 - 20:00 11 November 2013
David Rieff is a New York-based journalist and author. During the 1990s, he covered conflicts in Africa (Rwanda, Burundi, Congo, Liberia), the Balkans (Bosnia and Kosovo), and Central…

Museology Research Seminar: Locating Tibetan Art: The Ethics and Aesthetics of the Younghusband Mission to Tibet 1903-4

17:00 - 18:30 11 November 2013
Dr. Clare Harris, Reader in Visual Anthropology and Curator for Asian Collections, Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford Focusing on the Younghusband Mission of 1903-4, this paper argues that…

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